Well-Architected Framework Review

Optimise your Workloads with AWS Well-Architected Framework Review.

Well-Architected Framework Review

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Accelerate and Optimise your Cloud Architecture

As an AWS Well-Architected Program Partner, CloudStraight can execute WAF reviews and help build strategies to help you compare your workload against AWS best practices, and obtain guidance to produce stable and efficient systems so you can focus on innovation and business growth.

Operational Excellence

Armed with deep industry experience and AWS’s Expertise, CloudStraight begins the review process by analysing the client’s ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and support business outcomes.

Our end goal from this part of the WAF is to identify opportunities to further integrate operations into the DevOps mission to continually improve supporting processes and procedures.

  • Perform operations as code
  • Annotate documentation
  • Make frequent, reversible changes
  • Refine operations procedures
  • Anticipate failure
  • Learn from all operational failures

Security

From IAM to incident response, organisations following AWS’s Shared Responsibility Model and security best practices are protected.

Cloudstraight's AWS Certified Security Engineers know security best practices across verticals.

A security evaluation validates the tools and techniques used to secure a client’s AWS infrastructure to prevent financial and reputation loss while realising compliance.

  • Implement a strong ID foundation
  • Enable traceability
  • Apply security at all layers
  • Automate security best practices
  • Protect data in transit and at rest
  • Prepare for security events

Reliabilty

With a well-planned foundation and monitoring in place, an organisation can handle demand spikes and all system requirements.

CloudStraight’s Engineers study the client’s AWS environment to guarantee it can detect failure and automatically heal itself.

Resilient designs based on best practices can recover from infrastructure or service disruptions, dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand, and mitigate disruptions, such as misconfigurations or transient network issues.

  • Test recovery procedures
  • Automatically recover from failure
  •  Scale horizontally to increase aggregate system availability
  • Stop guessing capacity
  • Manage change in automation

Performance

CloudStraight takes a data-driven approach to analyse all aspects of the architecture, to make sure computing resources are being used efficiently to meet system requirements.

Our experts examine if it is possible to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve.

  • Democratise technologies
  • Go global in minutes
  • Use serverless architectures
  • Experiment more often
  • Mechanical sympathy

Cost Optimisation

Depending on the need for speed or cost savings, our Experts identify ways to avoid or eliminate unneeded costs and shift away from suboptimal resources.

Over-provisioned architectures that don’t take advantage of current best practices can impact the bottom line negatively and be unnecessary.

By following our recommendations from a WAF, clients typically save much more than the cost of carrying one out.

  • Adopt a consumption model
  • Measure overall efficiency
  • Stop data center spend
  • Analyze and attribute expenditure
  • Use managed services to reduce cost of ownership

Sustainability

Sustainability in cloud computing requires consistent and ongoing endeavors aimed at reducing energy consumption and enhancing efficiency in every aspect of a workload.

CloudStraight will help maximise the utilisation of provisioned resources while minimising overall resource requirements.

  • Region selection
  • Alignment to demand
  • Software and architecture
  • Data
  • Hardware and services
  • Process and culture

Well-Architected Framework Review

Optimise your Workloads with AWS Well-Architected Framework Review.

 

  1. Initial Review: Identify the workload to document. Then answer a series of questions about your architecture against the six pillars established by the Well-Architected Framework Review.
  2. Well-Architected Framework Review. Use the AWS Well-Architected tool to evaluate and assess your workload. We talk directly to people involved with maintaining and developing your current environment to get a 360-degree view of your process.
  3. Findings + Reports. We will present our findings and reports, which include what parts of your environment are well-architected, need improvement, and identify critical issues. We will also work collaboratively to create a prioritized plan to remediate 45% of the critical findings from the Well-Architected Review.
  4. Remediation: If you choose so, we can undertake the process of remediating critical issues.